I've read that, I wasn't sure how that would work. It actually sounds brilliant now that you described it. I always thought the bag was laid flat, but upright, and in the ground sounds better.In our FL garden nematodes were a real problem for the tomatoes. We tried a few different things but found what worked best for us was just to take a big bag of soil, slit open one of the narrow ends, poke a bunch of drainage holes all over the bag then plant the tomatoes in the bags. We put the bags (plant & all) into holes in the ground to stabilize them. Worked well in that garden.